On Sunday, 6 October 2013 at 16:33:24 UTC, Joseph Rushton
Wakeling wrote:
On 04/10/13 12:02, John Colvin wrote:
I propose that the current review process be redirected to a
new target package
in the phobos repo, stdx, which would then have a separate
review process for
inclusion in std.
Just a thought after reading through the discussion on
std.d.lexer, but -- isn't this what etc library modules are for?
See: http://dlang.org/phobos/index.html
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etc
This is the root of a hierarchy of modules mirroring the
std hierarchy.
Modules in etc are not standard D modules. They are here
because they are
experimental, or for some other reason are not quite
suitable for std,
although they are still useful.
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I like the idea of dub.stdx: peer-reviewed, officially endorsed
and rubber stamped modules
* It provides a BOOST like repository of high quality
peer-reviewed D libraries.
* It decouples the modules from the Phobos+compiler release
schedule.
* It allows users to download official libraries individually,
without upgrading compiler/Phobos or using git head.
* It provides a place official D libraries too big for Phobos.
I'm thinking of a Matlab toolbox type of repository with high
quality code. 3D/2D Gfx, GUI, image processing libraries,
linear-algebra, machine learning libraries etc. etc.
* Dub might be able to collect stats on downloads per module and
provide information about the popularity and amount of real-world
use a module receives before proposing for Phobos.std.
Cheers
